ktdreyer

"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one."

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Two Thousand Times One

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This year I re-read G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. I think I have a new favorite line: "… there are no words to expres...

Saturday, July 26, 2025

This door was nearly always locked

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Listened to The Silver Chair again this week. "If only the door was open again!" said Scrubb as they went on, and Jill nodded. For...

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

returning to Red Hat

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Last week I accepted an offer to work at Red Hat in the InstructLab engineering team. I can't wait to join this company again.

Tuesday, July 09, 2024

fail faster: better Python SSH timeouts

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I use Python's Paramiko to automate many things at work. Recently I wrote a SFTP client library. It it has a helper method like this: d...

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Intro to Koji video

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(Cross-posting here from koji-devel ) This week I created an Introduction to Koji video. Koji is the build system we use for the Fedora Pro...

Wednesday, October 07, 2020

How to succeed at Red Hat

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I met someone recently who just graduated college and was on the job search. I linked him to my favorite podcast episode on this topic. Af...

Saturday, May 02, 2020

in defense of code coverage

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"How much do I care about code coverage?" "100%!" (Kidding.) SQLite's article on testing is helpful in this di...

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